Tattooed Flower Vase

Tattooed Flower Vase
Poster to Tattooed Flower Vase (1976)
Directed by	Masaru Konuma
Written by	Kiyoharu Matsuoka
Starring	Naomi Tani Takako Kitagawa
Music by	Yasuo Higuchi
Cinematography	Masaru Mori
Distributed by	Nikkatsu
Release date(s)	September 25, 1976 (Japan)
Running time	74 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Tattooed Flower Vase aka Mature Vase: Tattooed Vagina (花芯の刺青　熟れた壺, Kashin no irezumi: nureta tsubo^?) (1976) is a Japanese pink film in the Roman Porno series, starring Naomi Tani, directed by Masaru Konuma and produced by Nikkatsu.^[1]

Synopsis

A traffic accident brings together the widow Michiyo and her step daughter Takako with Hideo, the young man who caused the accident. Hideo and Takako start a relationship but Michiyo finds out that Hideo is the son of the man who raped her many years earlier. After this discovery, Michiyo's feelings alternate between guilt and excitement and she secretly spies on the young lovers. As atonement she decides to have her "most sensitive areas" tattooed but the pain brings her pleasure. The denouement has Hideo lusting after Michiyo and raping her as his father had done.

Cast

• Naomi Tani as Michiyo
• Takako Kitagawa as Takako
• Shin Nakamaru as Hideo
• Genshu Hanayagi
• Mami Yuki

Availability

Kino International has announced a region 1 DVD release of Tattooed Flower Vase simultaneously with three other Masaru Konuma Roman Porno films, scheduled for November 6, 2007.^[2]

See also

• List of Nikkatsu Roman Porno films

Notes

1. ^ Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. p.269. ISBN 1-889288-52-7. 
2. ^ "Tattooed Flower Vase (1976)" (in English). Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Tattooed-Flower-Vase-Naomi-Tani/dp/B000VSDN64/. Retrieved 2007-10-17. 

Sources

• "KASHIN NO IREZUMI: URETA TSUBO" (in English). Complete Index to World Film. http://www.citwf.com/film181847.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-17. 
• Kashin no irezumi: ureta tsubo (1976) at the Internet Movie Database
• "花芯の刺青　熟れた壺 (Kashin no irezumi: ureta tsubo)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1976/cz002920.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-17. 
• Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. p.269. ISBN 1-889288-52-7. 
• Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. pp. 223,349. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7. 

External links

• Tattooed Flower Vase at the Internet Movie Database